Table 1.

Patient medical and surgical data.

Variable	Result
Age (mean±SD; range)	51±14 (17 to 69)
Gender (male/female)	7/2
Diagnosis (number of patients)
Hepatitis C	1
Hepatitis C with hepatocellular carcinoma	4
Alcoholic hepatitis	1
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis	1
Autoimmune hepatitis	1
Liver graft failure	1
MELD score (mean±SD, range)	17.9 ± 3.3 (6 to 33)
Preoperative bilirubin (mg/dL; mean ± SD, range)	5.8 ± 3.4 (0.7 to 31.2)
Ammonium (mmol/L; mean ± SD, range)	66.0 ± 10.4 (41.9 to 90.1)
History of encephalopathy (number of patients)	6
Duration of surgery (min; mean ± SD, range)	478±132 (320 to 720)
Duration of anhepatic stage (min; mean ± SD, range)	141±37 (87 to 206)
Tracheal extubation (mean ± SD)	1 day in 7 patients, 13 days in 1 patient, and 12 days in 1 patient
Postoperative seizure and stroke (number of patients)	2